4/4/2018 9:34:34 AM · by RightGeek · 31 replies
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Hmm, well I think the right looks silly when they constantly bring up King’s name. It is pandering. See, we aren’t really racist because we love MLK! It doesn’t work. The more the right grovels, the more the left and black activists dump on them.
Personally, I don’t think he was all that admirable. From what is reported, he was a womanizer, an abuser, and a plagiarist.
MLK was a proud Christian who despised PC and wanted people treated fairly. No SPECIAL TREATMENT, just fairness.
He voted Republican ever election until he was blackmailed by the Kennedy’s into supporting them.
MLK would be a proud member of the TRUMP TRAIN if he were still alive today. Infact, he may even have been a solid VP choice for Trump
The Left wants to make King into a new-age, social justice warrior. He was not - he was a Baptist Minister, and if you listen to every one of his speeches, it is a Sunday Sermon. Every speech that I have listened to is steeped in the Bible.
But King was also a socialist in many of his views - on minimum wage, on “minimum incomes” on unions, on reparations in one form or another to blacks, on affirmative action, on the size of the nanny-state, etc.... This is hardly conservative or right wing.
Every man contains contradictions, even more so the most famous ones.
Too many of “his people” have rejected that content of character thing.
King was turning left the last several years of his life. There’s plenty of interviews out there where you can listen to him regurgitate leftist platitudes.
“society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for the Negro.”
But he didn’t actually say “affirmative action” or something.
If by “Right” you mean Republican Party and “Left” the Democrats spare me the drama.
The two phony baloney Uniparties were King’s enemies. He worked outside of them like all of us should.
After his death Jesse Jackson talked of a third party but so many people associated with “Civil Rights” sold out to the Democrats and the big business elites in the end including Jesse Jackson.
Based on the responses in other threads around here a lot of conservatives don’t want him.
I do not revere a drugs-and-orgies adulterer and plagiarist.
Give me Frederick Douglass. Give me Walter Williams.
I have a bump
“I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective – the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed matter: the guaranteed income… The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.” – – Where do We Go from Here?, 1967.
“[W]e are saying that something is wrong … with capitalism…. There must be better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism.” – Speech to his staff, 1966.
We must recognize that we can’t solve our problem now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power… ”- Report to SCLC Staff, May 1967.